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Outside View: Revolutions ahoy? HARLAN ULLMAN || UPI Outside View Commentator WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- As long as government remains broken and destructive in the United States, political change is inevitable. [ FULL STORY ]

Outside View: Jobs report expected to show little progress, economy slowing PETER MORICI || UPI Outside View Commentator COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department on Friday to report the economy added 135,000 jobs in January, after gaining 200,000 in December. In 2012, weaker jobs gains are likely as consumer spending and economic activity slow. [ FULL STORY ]

Outside View: Recognition to what end ASAF ROMIROWSKY || UPI Outside View Commentator PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Although it has been 95 years since the Balfour Declaration and 64 years of Jewish independence in Israel, Zionism is still fighting for global recognition. [ FULL STORY ]

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Amnesty blasts Russia's stance on Syria NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Russia's threats to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria gives Damascus a blank check to kill more people, Amnesty International said. [ FULL STORY ]

Brazil eases Cuba into free market economy RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Brazil is easing Cuba into the free market economy with a generous package of aid in cash and kind and joint projects. [ FULL STORY ]

Syrians in occupied Golan Heights can't join Arab Spring ELENA RODA || Written for UPI MAJDAL SHAMS, Israel, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- They sip tea and talk about the Arab Spring at the Oud El Na'na' cafe. But talk is all they can do. [ FULL STORY ]

Hariri tribunal proceeds without suspects LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The U.N. tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister announced it would try four men accused of the attack in absentia. [ FULL STORY ]

NATO to clear Tajik munitions BRUSSELS, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Clearing munitions left from the Tajik civil war will help prevent the spread of weapons to neighboring Afghanistan, program officials said. [ FULL STORY ]

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Ashton: Oil embargo targets Iran's coffers BRUSSELS, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- European sanctions on Iranian oil are putting pressure on Tehran, though one lawmaker said she doubted Iran would change course because of them. [ FULL STORY ]

GDF Suez expands wind energy footprint PARIS, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- French energy company GDF Suez said expanding its wind energy portfolio in Romania and Poland is part of a broader plan for a greener Europe. [ FULL STORY ]

Kinder Morgan sees opportunity in Canada HOUSTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. pipeline company Kinder Morgan aims to expand a pipeline to Canada's west coast to address the country's trade ambitions, an executive said. [ FULL STORY ]

TNK-BP preps for arctic oil work MOSCOW, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Russian energy company TNK-BP announced plans to finish a drilling campaign in the Yamal-Nenets region to access some 2.25 billion barrels of oil. [ FULL STORY ]

Floridians back domestic energy, API finds WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Voters in the Florida, the latest state to have a Republican presidential primary, largely favor more domestic oil and gas production, the API said. [ FULL STORY ]

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Ivorian disarmament campaign ramps up ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Every weapon collected in Ivory Coast as part of a disarmament campaign brings the country closer to national reconciliation, a U.N. official said. [ FULL STORY ]

PMOI close to resettlement, envoy says BAGHDAD, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A memorandum outlining the voluntary relocation of Iranian dissidents in Iraq must be honored for the sake of peace, the U.N. special envoy to Iraq said. [ FULL STORY ]

PKO head chided for meeting Sudan's Bashir KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The head of the peacekeeping mission in Darfur is called on to avoid encounters with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a U.N. spokesman said. [ FULL STORY ]

Syrians in occupied Golan Heights can't join Arab Spring ELENA RODA || Written for UPI MAJDAL SHAMS, Israel, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- They sip tea and talk about the Arab Spring at the Oud El Na'na' cafe. But talk is all they can do. [ FULL STORY ]

Torture 'abhorrent,' London says LONDON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The British government believes torture is abhorrent and has no place in the modern world, a British foreign minister said. [ FULL STORY ]

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